Device for making cigarettes.



Patented Sept. l2, I899.

J. B. POPENHAGEN.

DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGABETTES.

(Application filed June 2, 1899.)

(No Model.)

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT EEicE.

JOSEPH B. POPENIIAGEN, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR MAKING CIGARETTES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 633,038, datedSeptember 12, 1899.

Application filed June 2, 1899. Serial 1%. 719,128. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be itknown that I,J OSEPH B. POPENHAGEN, of Chicago, in the county ofCook and State of Illinois, havein vented a new and Improved Device forMaking Cigarettes, of which the following is a full, clear,and exactdescription.

The object of myinvention is to provide a simple portable device formaking cigarettes, which device may be comfortably carried in thevest-pocket, and to so construct said device that it can be used indirect connection with a tobacco bag or pouch.

Another object of the invention is to so construct the device that itmay be temporarily attached to the pocket of a garment, and also so thatthe tobacco may be quickly, effectively, and conveniently drawn from asource of supply, packed in a shaping-section of the device, and passedfrom said. section into a wrapper of the usual type prepared to receivethe packed material.

A further object of the invention is to accomplish the foregoing resultswithout spilling or wasting any of the tobacco.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of theseveral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar characters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal section through the device, illustrating itas applied to a tobacco-pouch, which is likewise in longitudinalsection. Fig. 2is a partial side elevation and partial vertical sectionthrough the improved device and likewise a vertical section through awrapper carried by the device. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device.Fig. 4 is a plan view of the same. Fig. dis a transverse section takenpractically on the line 5 5 of Fig. 2; and Fig. 6 is a transversesection through the device, illustrating the packer as in verticalposition.

A tube A constitutes the body of the device, and said tube atits upperend is formed into a funnel B, which funnel is preferably oval, as shownin Fig. 4, in order that the device may be conveniently carried in thepocket. One side surface 10 of the tubular body A is flattened, as shownparticularly in employed.

Figs. 5 and 6, and in this flattened surface a longitudinal slot 11 ismade, which extends from a point near the bottom of the bodytube up intothe funnel-section B to a point near the top of said' funnel-section, asillustrated in Fig. 3.

An exterior annular groove 12 is produced at the upper edge of thefunnel-section B of the device, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and a springhook or clasp 13 is attached to the upper edge of the funnel, preferablyopposite the flattened surface 10. The spring-hook 13 is carrieddownward, so that its lower portion will be quite close to thefunnel-section, as shown in Fig. 2. This hook is carried over the edgeof the pocket in which the device is to be carried, thus preventing theliability of losing said device from the pocket.

The device is used ordinarily in connection with a tobacco pouch or bag0, the funnel portion of the device being introduced into the mouth ofthe bag or pouch, as shown in Fig. 1, and that portion of the bag orpouch containing the draw-string 17 is brought opposite the groove 12 inthe funnel-section of the device. By tightening the draw-string andforcing the mouth portion of the bag into the groove 12 of the devicethe bag may be securely attached thereto and may be left connected withsaid device, if desired.

In connection with the device a packer is This packer is in the form ofa spoon 14, but the spoon is preferably curved or arched to a greaterextent than an ordinary spoon and is provided with a shank 15, thatextends out through the slot 11, being secured at its outer extremity toa button 16. The spoon is capable of vertical movement practically theentire length of the body-tube and almost the entire length of the funnel-section B of said tube. Furthermore, the spoon may be reversed orturned, as desired, in the bodytube, and when employed for packingpurposes the concaved surface of the spoon faces downward; but afterpacking has been.accomplished the concaved surface of the spoon is madeto face upward, thus preventing any tobacco dropping down into the lowerportion of the body-tube when the packed material has been forced into awrapper D, and the material is packed into said wrapper by the spoonwhen its convexed face is downward.

The Wrapper D is in the form of a tube and is placed upon the lower endof the body-tube. The lower end portion of the wrapper is closed usuallyby simply twisting the material together at said end, as shown in Fig.2.

In operation the spoon is carried up into the hopper which receives thetobacco from the pouch and is turned therein until it is enabled tocarry in its downward movement a certain quantity of tobacco into thebottom portion of the tube. When a suflicient quantity of material hasbeen carried into the bottom portion of the tube, as other material isadded, the packed material will be forced into the wrapper D, and whenthe material has been packed in the body-tube about level with the upperend of the wrapper carried by said tube the spoon is turned, as shown inFig. 2, with its convexed surface downward, and as said spoon is carrieddown the bodytube the wrapper is carried down said bodytube, receivingthe packed material as it passes from the tube.

It will be observed that when the spoon has its concaved face upward itprevents any surplus tobacco reaching the packed tobacco, and while theconvexed surface of the spoon is downward the spoon extends beyond theupper end of the wrapper, thereby preventing waste of material, as shownin Fig. 2.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. A device for making cigarettes, consisting of abody-tube having a funnel-shaped upper end and a longitudinal slotextending from a point near the bottom of the body-tube 2. In a devicefor making cigarettes, the combination, with a shaping-tube, aifunnel atthe upper end of the shaping-tube, the shaping-tube and funnel beingprovided with a longitudinal slot and the funnel with an exteriorannular groove, and a clamping device located at the upper portion ofsaid fungel, of a spoon capable of being reversed in the shaping-tube,and a shank extending from the spoon through the slot in said shaping-tube, and provided with a button or knob, as and for the purposespecified.

3. In'a device for making cigarettes, the combination, with ashaping-tube having a flattened side face and provided with an ovalfunnel-section at the top, said funnel-section having an exteriorannular groove produced therein near its upper edge and both the shaping-tube and its f unnel-section being provided with a longitudinal slot,the slot occurring in the flattened surface of the shaping-tube, and aclamping device attached to the upper portion of the funnel-section, ofa spoon having one face decidedly concaved. and the other face decidedlyconvexed, the spoon being arranged to turn in the body-tube, a shankattached to said spoon and extending out through the said slot, and abutton attached to the outer end of the shank, for the purposespecified.

4. A device for making cigarettes, having a tubular body portion formedwith a longitudinal slot, and a packer mounted to turn and to movelongitudinally in the body portion and having a spoon or concavo-convexform and also having a manipulating portion extending through the slotand movable therein with the packer.

JOSEPH B. POPENHAGEN.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED RoRssUs, JOHN M. SILHA.

